masque
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The actual transformation occurs in Jonson’s subsequent masque.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2025
The masque, performed by gentle spirits, enchants the betrothed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
The spirit trumpet is one of a number of arcane and intriguing objects in Linder’s exhibition, which is titled The House of Fame, in tribute to a Ben Jonson masque and Chaucer’s dream poem.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2018
No production, including this one, manages completely to resolve the stylistic tensions built into “Candide,” which hovers between opera and musical theater, and strives to be satirical masque and cautionary tale.
From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2017
Years ago, her grandfather had taken her to see a masque in Bridgetown, in which a troupe of players from England had acted out the ancient Christmas story.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
“Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
The sort of masques that influenced “The Tempest” were designed to show royal authority bringing order out of chaos.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2016
This was a 21st-century equivalent of those court masques loved and indulged in by Tudor monarchs.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 5, 2012
“As You Like It” and “The Tempest” contain festive masques with dancing.
From Washington Post
Illustrated with numerous facsimiles of his designs for masques.
From A Catalogue of Books in English Later than 1700 (Vol 1 of 3) Forming a portion of the library of Robert Hoe by Various
